The Boston Red Sox’s bullpen was considered among the majors’ best earlier this season but has been decimated by injuries. The team now is down to Plan C at closer.

With Andrew Bailey (biceps) and Joel Hanrahan (forearm) on the disabled list, manager John Farrell plans to use the relatively unknown Junichi Tazawa in save situations.

"I think what we’d love to do is close Tazawa. We’d keep Koji (Uehara) in that eighth inning role that he’s been in," Farrell told The Boston Globe. "Fortunately we do have some depth to turn to internally and we know that we’ve got to get through these next couple of days to kinda regroup. ... So we’re kind of breathing a little thin ice down there right now and just trying to manage the best we can to get through these next couple of days to regroup.”

Tazawa is 2-1 with a 2.51 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 14 1/3 innings this season and quietly had a strong 2012 season (1.43 ERA, 9.2 K/9 in 37 appearances). However, he has only one career save in parts of four major league seasons.